BRIAN ENO — Here Come the Warm Jets (1974-2004) RM | Original Masters Series | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Eno's solo debut, Here Come the Warm Jets, is a spirited, experimental collection of unabashed pop songs on which Eno mostly reprises his Roxy Music role as "sound manipulator," taking the lead vocals but leaving much of the instrumental work to various studio cohorts (including ex-Roxy mates Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay, plus Robert Fripp and others). Eno's compositions are quirky, whimsical, and catchy, his lyrics bizarre and often free-associative, with a decidedly dark bent in their humor ("Baby's on Fire," "Dead Finks Don't Talk"). Yet the album wouldn't sound nearly as manic as it does without Eno's wildly unpredictable sound processing; he coaxes otherworldly noises and textures from the treated guitars and keyboards, layering them in complex arrangements or bouncing them off one another in a weird cacophony. Avant-garde yet very accessible, Here Come the Warm Jets still sounds exciting, forward-looking, and densely detailed, revealing more intricacies with every play. Steve Huey
Tracklist :
1.     Needles in the Camel's Eye 3:11
Brian Eno / Phil Manzanera
Bass Guitar – Bill MacCormick
Guitar – Chris 'Ace' Spedding, Phil Manzanera
Percussion – Simon King
2.     The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch 3:04
Brian Eno
Bass [Extra Bass] – Chris Thomas
Bass Guitar – Busta Cherry Jones
Guitar – Chris 'Ace' Spedding, Phil Manzanera
Percussion – Marty Simon
3.     Baby's on Fire 5:19
Brian Eno
Bass Guitar – John Wetton, Paul Rudolph
Guitar – Paul Rudolph, Robert Fripp
Percussion – Marty Simon, Simon King
4.     Cindy Tells Me 3:25
Brian Eno / Phil Manzanera
Bass Guitar – Busta Cherry Jones
Guitar – Phil Manzanera
Keyboards – Nick Judd
Percussion – Marty Simon
5.     Driving Me Backwards 5:12
Brian Eno
Bass Guitar – John Wetton, Paul Rudolph
Guitar – Robert Fripp
Percussion – Simon King
6.     On Some Faraway Beach 4:36
Brian Eno
Backing Vocals – Sweetfeed
Bass Guitar – Busta Cherry Jones
Keyboards – Andy Mackay
Percussion – Simon King
7.     Blank Frank
Brian Eno / Robert Fripp
Backing Vocals – Sweetfeed
Bass Guitar – Bill MacCormick
Guitar – Robert Fripp
Keyboards – Nick Kool And The Koolaids
Percussion – Simon King
8.     Dead Finks Don't Talk 4:19
Brian Eno
Arranged By – Eno, Jones, Judd, Thompson
Bass Guitar – Busta Cherry Jones
Keyboards – Nick Judd
Percussion – Paul Thompson 
9.     Some of Them Are Old 5:11
Brian Eno
Keyboards, Saxophone [Septet] – Andy Mackay
Slide Guitar – Lloyd Watson
10.     Here Come the Warm Jets 4:04
Brian Eno
Bass Guitar – Paul Rudolph
Guitar – Paul Rudolph
Percussion – Simon King 

BRIAN ENO — Before and After Science (1977-2004) RM | Original Masters Series | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Before and After Science is really a study of "studio composition" whereby recordings are created by deconstruction and elimination: tracks are recorded and assembled in layers, then selectively subtracted one after another, resulting in a composition and sound quite unlike that at the beginning of the process. Despite the album's pop format, the sound is unique and strays far from the mainstream. Eno also experiments with his lyrics, choosing a sound-over-sense approach. When mixed with the music, these lyrics create a new sense or meaning, or the feeling of meaning, a concept inspired by abstract sound poet Kurt Schwitters (epitomized on the track "Kurt's Rejoinder," on which you actually hear samples from Schwitters' "Ursonate"). Before and After Science opens with two bouncy, upbeat cuts: "No One Receiving," featuring the offbeat rhythm machine of Percy Jones and Phil Collins (Eno regulars during this period), and "Backwater." Jones' analog delay bass dominates on the following "Kurt's Rejoinder," and he and Collins return on the mysterious instrumental "Energy Fools the Magician." The last five tracks (the entire second side of the album format) display a serenity unlike anything in the pop music field. These compositions take on an occasional pastoral quality, pensive and atmospheric. Cluster joins Eno on the mood-evoking "By This River," but the album's apex is the final cut, "Spider and I." With its misty emotional intensity, the song seems at once sad yet hopeful. The music on Before and After Science at times resembles Another Green World ("No One Receiving") and Here Come the Warm Jets ("King's Lead Hat") and ranks alongside both as the most essential Eno material. David Ross Smith 
Tracklist :
1 No One Receiving 03:52
Bass, Guitar [Rhythm] – Paul Rudolph
Drums – Phil Collins
Fretless Bass – Percy Jones
Performer [A Gong-gong And Stick] – Rhett Davies
Synthesizer, Guitar, Percussion [Synthesized], Piano – Brian Eno
2 Backwater 03:43
Bass – Paul Rudolph
Drums – Jaki Liebezeit
Guitar [Rhythm], Brass, Piano – Brian Eno

3 Kurt's Rejoinder 02:55

Bass [Analog Delay Bass] – Percy Jones
Chorus, Piano ['jazz'], Synthesizer – Brian Eno
Drums – Dave Mattacks
Timbales [Brush] – Shirley Williams
Voice [From The Ur Sonata] – Kurt Schwitters
4 Energy Fools the Magician 02:04
Chorus, Keyboards, Vibraphone – Brian Eno
Drums – Phil Collins
Fretless Bass – Percy Jones
Guitar [Modified] – Fred Frith
5 King's Lead Hat 03:56
Bass – Paul Rudolph
Drums – Andy Fraser
Guitar [Guitar Solo] – Robert Fripp
Guitar [Rhythm] – Phil Manzanera
Performer [Metallics], Guitar [Rhythm], Piano [Piano Solo] – Brian Eno
6 Here He Comes 05:38
Bass – Paul Rudolph
Drums – Dave Mattacks
Guitar – Phil Manzanera
Synthesizer [Yamaha Cs80, Moog], Piano – Brian Eno
 7 Julie with... 06:19
Bass, Bass [Harmonic] – Paul Rudolph
Bells, Synthesizer [Mini-moog, Cs80, Aks], Piano, Guitar – Brian Eno
8 By This River 03:03
Electric Piano [Bass Fender] – Möbi Moebius
Piano [Grand], Electric Piano – Achim Roedelius
Synthesizer [Cs80] – Brian Eno
Written-By [Co-written] – Moebius, Roedelius

9 Through Hollow Lands (For Harold Budd) 03:56

Bass – Bill MacCormick
Guitar [Cascade] – Fred Frith
Keyboards, Bells, Guitar [Melody], Synthesizer [Moog] – Brian Eno
Performer [Time] – Shirley Williams
10 Spider and I 04:10
Bass – Brian Turrington
Keyboards, Synthesizer [Aks] – Brian Eno

QUIET SUN — Mainstream (1975-1989) RM | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

Phil Manzanera's pre-Roxy Music group never got to release their first attempt at an album, but in a break from Roxy in 1974, Manzanera regrouped the band and put out this effort, recorded at the same time as his solo extravaganza Diamond Head. Here, Manzanera disappears into the art rock group dynamic; the album is a selection of progressive jams featuring some tasty guitar work, complex rhythmic structures, and the always reliable bass work of Bill MacCormick. There is a certain dryness to the whole proceeding, a holding back, a lack of warmth, but perhaps this perception is derived from over half the tracks sounding so much better a year later as part of 801's Live, including "Sol Caliente," "Mummy Was an Asteroid, Daddy Was a Small, Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil," and especially "Rongwrong." Here the Charles Hayward song sounds like a university common-room joke, with its name-dropping of "reading Schoenberg in the bath" and such. Compared to the lush arrangement and rewritten lyrics of the Brian Eno-sung 801 version, Quiet Sun sounds like one album away from brilliance. Ted Mills
Tracklist :
1.     Sol Caliente 7:35
 Phil Manzanera 
2.     Trumpets With Motherhood 1:47
 Charles Hayward 
3.     Bargain Classics 5:48
Dave Jarrett
4.     R. F. D. 3:23
Dave Jarrett
5.     Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Small Non-stick Kitchen Utensil 6:01
 Bill MacCormick 
6.     Trot 5:18
 Phil Manzanera 
7.     Rongwrong 9:28
 Charles Hayward 
Credits :
Backing Vocals [Back-up Voices] – Ian MacCormick
Bass [Electric, Treated], Backing Vocals [Back-up Voices] – Bill MacCormick
Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Voice – Charles Hayward
Electric Guitar [6 & 12 String Guitars], Guitar [Treated Guitars], Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Phil Manzanera
Grand Piano [Fender Rhodes, Steinway], Organ [Farfisa, Hammond], Synthesizer [Vcs 3] – Dave Jarrett
Producer – Quiet Sun
Synthesizer, Performer [Treatments & Oblique Strategies] – Eno

ROXY MUSIC – Roxy Music (1972-2015) RM | Platinum SHM-CD | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

Falling halfway between musical primitivism and art rock ambition, Roxy Music's eponymous debut remains a startling redefinition of rock's boundaries. Simultaneously embracing kitschy glamour and avant-pop, Roxy Music shimmers with seductive style and pulsates with disturbing synthetic textures. Although no musician demonstrates much technical skill at this point, they are driven by boundless imagination -- Brian Eno's synthesized "treatments" exploit electronic instruments as electronics, instead of trying to shoehorn them into conventional acoustic patterns. Similarly, Bryan Ferry finds that his vampiric croon is at its most effective when it twists conventional melodies, Phil Manzanera's guitar is terse and unpredictable, while Andy Mackay's saxophone subverts rock & roll clichés by alternating R&B honking with atonal flourishes. But what makes Roxy Music such a confident, astonishing debut is how these primitive avant-garde tendencies are married to full-fledged songs, whether it's the free-form, structure-bending "Re-Make/Re-Model" or the sleek glam of "Virginia Plain," the debut single added to later editions of the album. That was the trick that elevated Roxy Music from an art school project to the most adventurous rock band of the early '70s. Stephen Thomas Erlewine 
Tracklist :
1.    Re-Make / Re-Model 5:10
2.    Ladytron 4:21
3.    If There Is Something 6:33
4.    2 H.B. 4:30
5.    The Bob (Melody) 5:48
6.    Chance Meeting 3:00
7.    Would You Believe? 3:47
8.    Sea Breezes 7:00
9.    Bitters End 2:02
Credits :
Bass Guitar – Graham Simpson
Drums – Paul Thompson
Guitar – Phil Manzanera
Saxophone, Oboe – Andy Mackay
Songwriter [All Songs By], Voice, Piano, Cover – Bryan Ferry
Synthesizer [Synthesiser], Tape – Eno